It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke.
Søren KierkegaardTags: apocalypse
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Tags: poetry despair apocalypse
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanTags: irish ireland apocalypse
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.
Neil GaimanTags: humor apocalypse
You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'
'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.
Tags: humor death apocalypse hells-angels
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.
Douglas CouplandTags: technology apocalypse consumer-culture end-of-the-word feudalism
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
Cormac McCarthyTags: life thoughtful apocalypse the-road
Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
Alan MooreTags: life evil apocalypse plot mastermind ozymandias
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
Walter M. Miller Jr.Tags: conscience apocalypse
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
Roger ZelaznyTags: life death apocalypse armageddon post-modernism cinema simulacra end-of-the-world
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